Navigator: serial property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The serial read-only property of the Navigator interface returns a Serial object which represents the entry point into the Web Serial API.

When getting, the same instance of the Serial object will always be returned.

Value

A Serial object.

The following example uses the getPorts() method to initialize a list of available ports.

navigator.serial.getPorts().then((ports) => {
  // Initialize the list of available ports with `ports` on page load.
});

Specification
Web Serial API # extensions-to-the-navigator-interface

	desktop					mobile							server
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS	Node.js
`serial`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 89 (Release date: 2021-03-04) footnote Full support	Firefox – Preview support Firefox 151 (Release date: 2026-05-19) footnote Preview browser support	Opera – Full support Opera 75 (Release date: 2021-03-24) footnote Full support	Safari – No support Safari footnote No support	Chrome Android – Partial support Chrome Android 138 (Release date: 2025-06-24) footnote Partial support footnote Serial ports are only available if they're provided by Bluetooth RFCOMM serial port emulation.	Firefox for Android – No support Firefox for Android footnote No support	Opera Android – Partial support Opera Android 91 (Release date: 2025-08-19) footnote Partial support footnote Serial ports are only available if they're provided by Bluetooth RFCOMM serial port emulation.	Safari on iOS – No support Safari on iOS footnote No support	Samsung Internet – No support Samsung Internet footnote No support	WebView Android – No support WebView Android footnote footnote See bug 40740509	WebView on iOS – No support WebView on iOS footnote No support	Node.js – No support Node.js footnote No support

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Full support: Full support
Partial support: Partial support
In development. Supported in a pre-release version.: In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
No support: No support
: See implementation notes.